Could it ever happen that a new Juliet, in a not remote future, could love an "electronic", cyber Romeo? Probably not, but this time, anyway, Romeo and Juliet won' t die...to my Juliet, Sandra.
What' s Romeo?
Romeo is a Java-basedM.A.M.E. (Multiple Machine Emulator) frontend. MAME is an emulator. It reproduces, more or less faithfully, the behavior of various arcade machines. Even though MAME allows people to
enjoy the long-lost arcade games and even some newer ones, the main purpose of the project is to document the hardware (and software) of the arcade games. MAME, being very portable software, has been ported to several other
platforms. Since version 0.1.3pre3, this frontend supports XMame and the Windows command line (not the Dos port). XMame is the
Unix/X11 port of the mame project. This port makes mame available on *ix machines using the X11R6 X-Window System (and SVGAlib/ggi/XF86-DGA/OpenGL/SDL too) and is maintained by
Lawrence Gold.
Romeo on Windows, skin aqua
Romeo was created in the attempt to improve my knowledges of Java language and in the hope that it will be useful.
Its name derives from a play on words: the "rom" is the emulator' s core, a set of files used to run an arcade game.
Romeo is open source and released under the Gnu General Public License. You can read the full license agreement here.
This product includes software developed by L2FProd.com (http://www.L2FProd.com) and by MetaStuff, Ltd (http://www.dom4j.org). You can read the terms of agreement here.
Features
Romeo is under development but presents a good number of features:
Look And Feel
The main window has 3 tabs. The first tab contains a selection tree and the list of games. A single right click on a selected game shows a popup menu. The second tab shows screenshot, flyer, marquee, cabinet photo and history of a selected game. Moreover, You can retrieve info from the internet. The third tab contains the game options. You can save your own configuration for each game or use the the default one.
Romeo is skinnable. The package contains 7 skins.
It's possible to change the Look And Feel and to apply themes.
It's possible to change the icon set: at this time three icon sets are available: Noia by Carlitus
(Red and blue version) and Kids by Everaldo.
Abilities
It's possible to search for a game name or description in the list of games.
Romeo can download files from the internet (ROMs, snaps, flyers, marquees, cabinet photos, audio samples, artwork files). Both of ftp and http protocols are supported.
Support for internationalized text:
At this time, four language files are available: English, Italian, German (courtesy of Arnim Läuger and, at this moment, only available as a separate download) and Spanish (courtesy of Luis Oscar villavazo). Anyway, You can create your own language file. Simply copy English.ini in Conf/Languages and edit every line after the char '='.
Save it as your_language.ini. It will appear automatically in the first tab of the Settings window. Select it and restart Romeo. Please, consider the idea to send your file to me, to be enclosed in the package.
Utilities
Location and size of the main window are saved on exit.
You can read the source code. There' s a specific item in the Help menu to run a viewer.
You can send bug reports, wish lists, patches, translations, flames, praises etc. with the enclosed mail module.
